Dr. Woo is a Philadelphia Magazine 2010 Top Doctors. His clinical practice involves all aspects of adult cardiovascular surgery. He has focused upon off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (beating heart surgery) minimally invasive cardiac surgery, mitral valve repair, reconstruction of the aortic root, arch, and thoracoabdominal aorta for aneurysms and dissections, and heart and lung transplantation. Dr. Woo is the Director of the Minimally Invasive and Robotic Cardiac Surgery Program and is the Director, Cardiac Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program. His research interest is in the development of novel molecular and genetic approaches to treating myocardial ischemia and heart failure.

Faculty Appointments

1993 - 1998

Assistant Instructor in Surgery, Department of Surgery
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1995 - 1997

Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Harrison Department of Surgical Research
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1998 - 2002

Instructor in Surgery, Department of Surgery
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2002 - 2009

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery
Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2009 - present

Associate Professor of Surgery at HUP
Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Distinguished Visiting Professor of Surgical Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, May 20, 2010. Department of Surgery Grand Rounds Lecture “A New Paradigm in Cardiovascular Surgery: Rebuilding the Heart from Native Components---Scientific Research and Clinical Advances” Judged Research Day Competition.

“Overview of Minimally Invasive Surgery: What It Is and What It Isn’t” Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists 14th Annual Cardiopulmonary Bypass Meeting, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, March 16, 2009.

Invited Panelist: “Surgical Ablation of Atrial and Ventricular Arrhythmias: The Time Has Passed or Time Has Come?” 17th Annual State-of-the-Art Arrhythmia Symposium, PennMedicine and American Heart Association, Philadelphia PA, September 14, 2009.

Xiangya University School of Medicine, Changsha, China, September 14, 2005. Lecture: “Cardiac Surgery at the Cutting Edge” Rounds in ICU and Ward. Performed live demonstration surgery: Off-Pump CABG and Aortic Valve Replacement.